University of Houston took out a full-page advertisement in Sunday’s Houston Chronicle, thanking Houston Men's Hoops 🏀 🐾 for an “unforgettable season.” “You’ve etched your names into the hearts of every fan who cheered you on.” “We aren’t done.”

Congratulations to Yujie Zhang on defending her thesis on natural disasters and human capital. She will be joining PennPSC for a postdoc ! Here, she is pictured with her committee Elaine Liu, Aimee Chin, and virtually with Fan Wang & Minhaj Mahmud (Asian Development Bank)

"Why are US taxpayers funding Harvard?" These grants aren't charity. They're highly competitive contracts where the US government determines Harvard is the best institution for conducting specific research, and then pays Harvard for services rendered to US taxpayers.

Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is Yabo Gwladys Vidogbena University of Houston, a brand-new PhD (congrats!) who works on topics related to education + gender in SSA + is headed to PennPSC!

Post-defense smiles ! Congratulations to Angelo pictured here with his advisors chinhui juhn , Yona Rubinstein , Willa Friedman and @behrmanjere (Penn). Angelo will join PennPSC for a postdoc.

Habemus Papam! We have a Pope! The Cardinals gathered in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel have elected Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost as the 267th Pope, who took the name Pope Leo XIV.

How we "guessed" the Pope using network science: inside the cardinal network. A study by me, Beppe Soda and Alessandro Iorio. Article: unibocconi.it/en/news/networ… Università Bocconi

Big thanks to Nishith Prakash for stopping by UH Economics this morning to share his wisdom on the academic job market, sparking research ideas, and doing impactful work. Our PhD students left inspired and better prepared. Proud to welcome back such an accomplished alum!

Finn and Julia are getting a head start on the 2040 micro prelim

I am working on a guide to all possible scenarios that someone who wants to implement DiD might face, like "what estimator should I use?". Questions to ask include: timing of treatment, nature of a) treatment effect & b) treatment variable, data structure, assumptions/violations

Researchers: need a pick-me-up? Check out the Stata package MOTIVATE; it gives you motivational quotes to inspire you while coding. And while you're at it, check out the DEMOTIVATE package too. :)

🎓Want to support the next generation of economists? #AMIE's Call for #Mentors for 2025-26 is live! tinyurl.com/49er8bpk Apply by July 11: forms.gle/FXpw6MUW5WBeT3… We are excited to hear from you! Find out more at econmentoring.org #econtwitter

github.com/kylebutts/vsco… If you are using vscode and stata, you should try out my extension. It uses interactive window which let's you write in a `.do` file but get a notebook type experience.

People are more productive when they work from home.

Accepted :D

We develop a framework to study segregation dynamics that brings Schelling's key insights to models of residential choice. We also introduce novel IVs to identify causal effects of neighborhood demographics that can be easily constructed with panel data. econometricsociety.org/publications/q…

We have a new post 🙃 Three recent DiD papers, one shared goal: better estimates in messy settings ☑️DiD that hits efficiency bounds ☑️Synthetic DiD that mimics an oracle ☑️TWFE vs. the new wave 👉substacktools.com/sharex/l34vE6Hs

In a new op-ed Esther Duflo reminds us: “'Development aid is not a waste of public money.” 📖 Read via Le Monde: lemonde.fr/en/opinion/art…

.University of Houston on Forbes' annual list of America’s top colleges:   - No. 1 among Texas Big 12 schools - No. 3 among Texas public institutions - No. 6 among Texas universities - No. 43 among U.S. public institutions